Andrey Finyagin

Despite her parents' ban, 20-year-old Faina Feldman is going to conquer theatrical Moscow. The capital greets her with hostility, but Faina doesn't care much, especially since real friends and mentors appear in her life who teach, help, and patronize. Every minor success is followed by a serious life drama. Revolution, then war... and each time there is a serious struggle for life, which is based on fragile hope, a great love for the theater and absolute faith in one's own destiny.

The untold true story of singer Valeriya. The behind-the-scenes world of show business, the secrets that make people rich and famous, and the dramatic story of two decades in the life of a celebrated singer. This is the life story of a provincial girl who reached the most extraordinary heights of a pop music career.

Nadya was widowed young and raised two children on her own. Long ago she gave up hope of finding personal happiness, and now it seems even more impossible — she is already a grandmother. Nadya works in a flower shop, where Lyonya, her peer and also a widower with two grown children, often stops by. For his young lover, it is Nadya who prepares the beautiful bouquets. One day, however, Lyonya catches his girlfriend with another man. Disillusioned, he firmly decides never again to get involved with younger women. Instead, he chooses something unexpected: he proposes to Nadya. Nadya is bewildered. She knows Lyonya does not truly love her, and his children oppose the marriage. Yet for her, this might be the last chance at personal happiness — and she decides to take it.

Vadim is an ordinary office worker with no prospects, desperate to somehow change his boring life. One afternoon, while pondering his life in a pub, a mysterious bartender offers Vadik a cocktail. Upon drinking this cocktail, Vadik's world is instantly transformed beyond recognition. He is now successful, attractive and interesting. However, Vadik needs to learn how to sustain this new mirage, once the cocktails run out.

In Russia a new dog tax has been introduced. Inspectors are dispatched in search of defaulters. Raisa is the best in the city; she loves her job. But it creates a professional imbalance and prevents her from leading a good private life. Psychoanalysis, hypnosis, and special respiratory techniques do not help.

The heroine, a lonely woman, falls in love with a young businessman very similar to a childhood friend. Everything separates them, the age difference, the social position and this creates a multitude of obstacles, sad or ridiculous, to the realization of their aspirations. But how to imagine that this man, who was trying at the beginning to get rid of an intruder, comes to a declaration of love accompanied by flowers.